single-storey

• “Started with a D and was the biggest t room in the single-storey part of the lodge.”

  Rio Hondo workshop

• “It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices.”

  The Washington Post: A quick peek behind China's wall

• “The single-storey shop holds a story time on Saturdays, craft activities during the holidays and author events.”

  The Guardian: Independent bookshops in London

• “A total of 88 patients were evacuated from the single-storey building in suburban Quakers Hill.”

  The Guardian: Sydney nursing home fire leaves three dead

• “The brick houses and single-storey factories of the suburbs had disappeared completely below the drifting tides of silt.”

  Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World

• “The report warns that the town's problems are compounded by its predominant architectural style, which consists of largely single-storey dwellings, meaning that residents cannot simply go upstairs to avoid floodwaters.”

  The Guardian: Climate change 'will wreak havoc on Britain's coastline by 2050'

• “Two old Chevys - a pickup and a Nova - sit in the driveway of the Loughner's tan single-storey house, where the backyard fence is aged and peeling and the front porch is littered with empty buckets of roofing tar.”

  The Washington Post: Neighbors: Jared Loughner and family quiet, kept to themselves

• “Patterns are already emerging from the study: more died in summer when people were out and about, but relatively few people died in house fires because most lived in single-storey homes and could easily escape.”

  The Guardian: The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link

• “The edifice was nothing more than a single-storey structure, white stone and with no logo or marker, no signs or anything to distinguish it.”

  Fictionaut: Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri

• “I turned around but could not see the building from where I emerged, it being tucked off the main street and its single-storey stockiness obscured by the expansive greenbelt that set it off from the rest of the city.”

  Fictionaut: Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri

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